Following my fiends

FREE! A 6-star read. MUST one-click. Where I End and You Begin by Andra Brynn

Purchase -> http://amzn.to/16Ky9KT

Review -> http://missconstruedsreviews.com/?p=48

Synopsis -> In Japan, they say there's a red thread of fate that binds people who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. It may tangle, it may knot, it may stretch or fray, but it will never break. It is a future as indelible as the past.

I hope that isn't true. I pity anyone destined to meet me.

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For Bianca Ray, the past is always catching up, one way or another. Now in her third semester at college, it's doing it again. Too much drinking has led to plummeting grades and rising absences, putting her scholarships in peril. When she makes it clear that she needs help--all over the floor of her history class--she's given one last chance to shape up: seek therapy and bring her grades up by the end of the semester, or she's out.

Enter Catholic seminarian Daniel McGuire. The last thing Bianca wants is an aspiring priest to counsel her on how to live her life, but the handsome graduate student is different from the holy rollers she fled from at home. Gentle and unobtrusive, he helps her pick up the pieces and find a new way to live: not running from the past, but facing it head on.

But opening up her heart to release the pain means that something else can come in. As Bianca and Daniel grow closer, their relationship moves onto dangerous ground. When they finally cross the line, the fragile courage Bianca has built up threatens to fail her. Can she exorcise the ghosts of her past, or will they catch hold and drag her down where not even Daniel can reach her?

I am finding this site to be very difficult.

This book starts out in October with a description of Sir Charles Shelmadine's last ride and so sets a feel for the whole story.   Its slightly spooky but never gory and I love Norah Lofts descriptions.

I was very annoyed to learn that some think this story is just a romance novel!  It made me feel sick as I never focus on the romance aspect of this story.   The life and personality of Damask are of main interest to me.   I hope you will give it a try but don't tell me as I am overly sensitive about it.   (unless you like it and then I want to hear it)   I especially love the writing of Norah Lofts as I lived in Suffolk for a year and her work brings my time there back to me.

About different people living in the same house over several centuries. It really would have been better as a series of short stories, the connection between the different episodes is not strong enough to make a coherent novel. Still very readable and the history is not annoyingly wrong, which I appreciate greatly.

Batgrl here for this first bit: Note to GR folks - One Small Problem with this:

If you turn on synchronize, anything you correct here will be mirrored over at your GR account. I didn't know this and went in and edited some newly exported reviews (which had lost all the html in the export process) - and suddenly all that html was lost in my GR reviews as well. So if you want to do any editing here, turn off sync, unless you're completely ok with having your GR review mirrored as it is on this site.

In my case I'm going to have to add a lot of html here that was in my GR reviews (links to Gutenberg and wikipedia mostly), which will be a pain. But at least I now know to turn off the sync or lose the html in the original review on GR.

 Also that "I love GR" button isn't quite what I'm feeling at the moment. Am still waiting to see how much I'll be using GR in the future. I still like its ability to compare users book history.

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• posting a review,
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Please remember that BookLikes -> Goodreads book match is possible thanks to ISBN. If the book lacks the number or is unavailable on Goodreads with the given ISBN, it may not appear on your Goodreads bookshelves.

The synchronization will be active from the moment you connect your GR account on BookLikes. If you would like to fill up your BookLikes profile with your past book entries from Goodreads, you can do that by importing your csv file from Goodreads with your book collection, bookshelves, reviews and ratings in Settings/Import. If you have any questions, check our FAQ site or write to us. 

I enjoyed this one and can recommend it but it was too sad and he was too long winded!